Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ASCII art converter

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge to ASCII art. Closing this a little early, as a strong and clear consensus exists herein to merge this article to ASCII art. (non-admin closure) NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:40, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ASCII art converter

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Un-referenced article about non-notable type of computeer software. Link farm of specific implementations with no value-add about algorithms, implemntation, history, application, or any other aspects that could be covered. Mikeblas (talk) 21:40, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:11, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into ASCII art. I see value of this name as a search term, but the discussion of the methods of creating ASCII art belongs there anyway. I should note that there is not much information to be merged though. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 16:12, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as above. There are sources discussing this kind of software[1][2][3][4][5][6], but not really enough in depth coverage that I'd say it's definitely notable (I'd expect there to be some more sources in 1980s magazines, old works of computing folklore/history, etc, but that's only supposition). --Colapeninsula (talk) 17:48, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into ASCII art. Refs insufficient for a separate article, but ASCII art article already has ' Methods for generating ASCII art' where any salvageable content from this article could work.Dialectric (talk) 20:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into ASCII art. Long before there were Photographic mosaics, creation of and conversion to ASCIII art was popular. I agree with Colapeninsula that the best sources are likely offline 80's computer enthusiast magazines and newspapers. The lead is a reasonable short summary of how conversion is typically accomplished and the existence of some RS make it verifiable; AAlib is a notable example of such software. Per WP:PRESERVE and WP:ATD, preservation of verifiable material is preferable to deletion and a merge to ASCII art is a natural target. This is a plausible search term, so a redirect is warranted, too. No prejudice to re-creation if multiple in-depth RS are eventually found. --Mark viking (talk) 17:15, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into ASCII art. References not strong enough to establish notability as a standalone article. Philg88 ^♦talk 10:30, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.